The Sound of Music birthday party
Mon, 11 Jun 2012 9 Comments 
We finally had our 50th birthday bash. A combined affair for Kelvin and myself as well as our good friend Glen. Hence the reason for a June party for an April birthday. We had to split the differences.
This is Glen making his entrance early in the piece. It was a late afternoon/early evening "do". We're getting old remember! I only have a few photos from the very early party goers. I promise more as someone took 450 and managed to capture all the amazing fancy dress costumes.
Here's one of the tables. "Favourite Things" ... raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with sting ... these are a few of my favourite things.
My kettles weren't so bright but I did discover that almost everyone in Ipswich owns a copper kettle if the costumes were anything to go by. Here are two of the six nuns that turned up. Beer seems to be the tipple of choice for those of the cloth.
Glen, Julie and Andrea performed "So long, Farewell" with all the movements. This was even before the party started and they were sober. Things got worse as the alcohol flowed.
As the night set in we lit up the side of the house with badly hand coloured shots from the movie and fires were necessary.
I then got caught up in feeding 35 guests. No more pictures but we did have pumpkin soup with truffles and warm olive sour dough bread, slow rosted beef with red wine gravy and creamy portatoes as well as a couple of yummy pasta bakes to keep away the cold. Dessert was apple strudel and ice cream. I was too busy to eat much let alone take more photos but here is one at the end of the night of my friend Kerrie going home ... with her bright copper kettle and brown paper package. Face obscured because she would kill me if I showed her face!
When I can steal more photos from friends I'll pop them up. I need to put my feet up now and open one of the bottles of red I got as a present. Gotta love when you get to a certain age and everyone buys you bottle after bottle of decent booze :)
Reader Comments (9)
Happy birdee!
Looks like a lovely party. Great to see the house too.
Happy retrospective birthday Jo.
I've watched the pics of Glen coming down the garden path about six times now - it's so gorgeous. He could come to my party anytime.
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Your party looks like it was a blast. I would have loved to have been there to celebrate with ya. :(
I wish you all could have come. I had enough food and wine.
I really need to thank a few people. Glen and Grant, Kelvin, Jed and Daniel for your organisation, help and party spirit. You guys are fab! My sister Jacinta, Grant's sister Cass and Cindy for their help on the day. Extra thanks to Cass for her yummy food! Let's do it again in 50 years ;)
Looks like one helluva party! Congrats to all the birthday kids!
Oh my god Jo that looks hilarious. I am so stealing that theme for my next birthday!
Happy belated birthday,
hx
This is just pure awesomeness!!!! These are the kind of people you wish for in your life. :)
Thanks Lin, Heather and NP/DWP. It was a blast. Heather you so have to unleash your inner Maria for your next b'day party. Deep down everyone wants to dress up as nuns or slightly weird overgrown Austrian kids and sing bad songs.
Lemme guess, the first song Glen belted on behalf of you birthday guys was "Edelweiss", right. Nobody more or less resembled The Captain but him, no?
The gift collection caught my eye --- a splendid addition to my decorative tree come December.
Glad you had a nice one. Enjoy!